This study reports the psychometric properties of Elliott's pacifism scales among Afrikaners and Indians in South Africa. Both the reliability and intercorrelations of each were found to be generally poor and future users of the scales are warned against the possible effects of meaningless acquiescence as well as meaningless relationships between unbalanced scales.
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